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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE

... -0 HOME CIRCUIT-HzsRTFoass. AFFrAYAT WIT POACHERS.-George Morris, aged 23, was in, dicted for having with divers other personsunlawfully enteredt close in the occupation of Sir Henry Meux, Bart., armed wil guns and other offensive weapons, for the purpose of destroying ?? Hallon deposed that he was assistant garen keeper to the prosecutor, who had an estate at Cheshunt, in th county of Herts. ...

Published: Sunday 08 March 1840
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2641 | Page: Page 4, 5 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c

... ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &ec. TRAGICAL OcCURRENCE AT RICKSSAYSWORTH.- Within the last few days a shocking case has taken place in the above village. A few months back a young man named Henry Thompson, about 20 years of age, whose father is a veterinary sur eon and farrier in exceedingly good circum- stances, living 'n the village, became acquainted with a young woman named Louisa Humphries, and it ...

Published: Sunday 15 March 1840
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2095 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

LAW INTELLIGENCE—WEDNESDAY

... ,LA W INTBELLIGEBN'E-WEDNB 8DAY. COURT OF CHANCERY. CtAMPI(?Y V. RIOBY. This appeal from an order of 3i, John beach In 1 830, wian opened last week by Mir. Coeper. Thle bill was tiledl to set aside the salte vf a property in Thaues..treet, D) the ground that the defendant %tho purha.sed It ar' at the time the contidential solicltor of the plaittiff. The case made was, that the property had not ...

POLICE NEWS

... DESTITUTION. At the Mansion-house, a miserable woman, diseased and exhausted, was brought before the Lord Mayor, by direction of the commissioner of the city police, in consequence of the refusal of the relieving officer of the city of London union to give her an asylum or relief on the preceding night upon being applied to by a police officer. The policeman stated that he found the unfor- ...

Published: Sunday 01 March 1840
Newspaper: The Charter
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3947 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

SPRING ASSIZES

... . sti5v A5UZsEL NORTH1RN CIRC1IT.-YORK.-M'AncH 20. II (Before Mr. Justiee Eisie.) - ltuinsoz or £ FArTa.-James Bardsky, aged 29, was; e leaed at thbeUr, charged with the murder of his father, e .iMes BarrleYifat Quick, in the West Riding. On being. placed at the bar, the prisoner, a heavy-looking tall young a man,'sullenly pleadedguilty. HisLordshipreminded him. of the Oer serious nature of ...

POLICE

... UNION HALL. On Wednesday Hnrriet Carter, a servant girl in the em- ploy of James Walter, a pawnbroker, in Thornton street, Dockhead, wos charged on suspicion with robbing her mas- ter. Complainant had missed various sums of money from his cashbox, and suspicion had fallen on the prisoner owing to the extravagance in which she indulged for dress, which she could not procure honestly, her wages ...

Published: Sunday 01 March 1840
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1423 | Page: Page 11, 12 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES

... SHOCaISNG BARHAstrLM.-On Mbniday night last a sailor, living in Bo'ness, put the girdle or plate of iron for baking oaten cakes on the fire, and made it red. hot; he then put his wife upon it, and burned her in a most shocking manner,.so that from her waist- downwards- she is as black as a coal. --He after- wards threw a shovel of red cinders into her face. Altogether the poor woman, as may ...

LAW NOTICES—THIS DAY

... LA IV NOTIChS.--Tiuis DAx. COURT OF CHANCERY, LINCOLN'S-INN-Sitat ten, APsNa A. MIOTMUNi-Cade v Blake-Davis v Franklyn. CAUSE PETITlONs-Hugles v oWynrsa, two petitlons, part heard -Deacon v Dleanos-In re Itoystoe Grammasr Sclool-AttorleY- General v Dupre- in re White asisd Curew-1 a re itristol (liaritils -Togbill v Grant-lrotin v Willlams-Hobtia v Houlhh-Kelsey V Larlihi-T'urser v Larkin ...

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—MONDAY

... CrNTRAL CRINLWAL COURT-MONDAY. The d'th seusion of the present maynorlty commenced ?? morn. Ing, arit the corirt %vas opened at ten o'clock, In presence of the Rtight Hlonourable tihe Lord Mayer, the Recorder, air. Sergeant Arablin, Mr. Alderman W'hiit, and the Under Sheriffs, Alr. France and 1r. Jackson. The calendar contains the names of 187 prironers, of vrhom 25 are fro', London, 134 from ...

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE

... ASSIZE l ATEL LIGENL'C. NORTHlERtN CIRCUIT-Yoni, HARUII 1. Ti,, nssl's for ?? coinneiicert bere ?? 'IThrearebut thrte prisoners InI the town, but the calendar for the aounrty iH ex- tre cey heavy, as r ell In potnt of nuwbers as In tle aggravatedI nature of mauny of tie vffenees. FPor ttawd chaiged with mnurder, four vith rape, six rthtit iiafliaughter, twenty thrceu with ?? robbery, our rwith ...

LAW INTELLIGENCE—THURSDAY

... L.A1V INTBLLIGBNCE-TiUnsDAY. _ 4 HOUSE OF LORDS. TRWt UNAUtlON't PORSAGE. A ,ommittee for privilege as1embled this anorning, with Lord Siattesbhsry In tihe chair, ?? the purpi~se of Inquitrig into the clalmn of Milas Thoaes Stapleton, of Carlton. In the county of York, 3sq, to be admitted as the senior co-heir of the barony of Beaumont, This peerage first had existence In tire second year of ...

BARBAROUS MURDER in a CANAL BOAT

... BARBAROUS MURDE1Rin a CANAL BOAT'. MANCHnSTrItC, MAitcti 4.-Aboat nine o'clock on Sun daI uwrning it w- dtsiovared that a narn, namtd Williwm CtOetharn, a beatinan in the eulploy of Mr. W Shelpherd, of ltochtate, had been, to ail appearanue, barbarrulsly mur- dered in the cabin of his boat, which plies onl the R chdale .>nd Manchester (anal, and was theD lying at tt place callee BIrowa's ...